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A Favourite of the Gods and a Compass Error by Sybille Bedford; Daniel Mendelsohn (Preface by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
A Favourite of the Gods is the story of two generations of a single family, united by a strong matrilineal bond but divided by the customs of their differing nationalities. Anna Howland, the matriarch and American heiress, born in the 1870s to a prominent, liberal New England family marries an Italian p ...Show more
Down Below by Leonora Carrington
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Leonora Carrington is perhaps the most enchanting of the women Surrealists. The daughter of Anglo Irish privilege, she broke free of her manor-house upbringing and fled, first to art school, and then to the Continent. Though she is best known as a painter of the gothic fantastic, with a cult following a ...Show more
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country is vintage William H. Gass: two novellas and three short stories, set in the Midwest, exhibiting Gass's characteristic and wildly original verbal brilliance and philosophical acuity. The volume includes The Pedersen Kid, a story originally published a few years b ...Show more
On the Abolition of All Political Parties by Simone Weil
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Simone Weil-philosopher, activist, mystic-is one of the most uncompromising of modern spiritual masters. In "On the Abolition of All Political Parties" she challenges the foundation of the modern liberal political order, making an argument that has particular resonance today, when the apathy and anger o ...Show more
The Communist by Elizabeth McKenzie
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Category: Fiction | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Moody, potent, subtly apocalyptic, The Communist tells the story of Walter Ferranini, the earnest, intense, autodidact son of the working class become an Italian Communist MP who undergoes a crisis just after Khrushchev for the first time denounced the Stalinist dictatorship. Ferranini, worn-out after m ...Show more
The Door by Magda Szabo Len Rix (Translator); Ali Smith (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
Emerence is a domestic servant - strong, fierce, eccentric, and with a reputation for being a first-rate housekeeper. When Magda, a young Hungarian writer, takes her on she never imagines how important this woman will become to her. It takes twenty years for a complex trust between them to be slowly, ca ...Show more
The Violins of Saint-Jacques by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Category: No Category | Series: NYRB Classics Ser.
"Mr. Fermor's elegant rococo fantasy about a volcanic eruption on an imaginary Caribbean island is just close enough to reality to raise a genuine shiver--possibly even a genuine tear. In truth, it is a small timeless masterpiece."--Phoebe Lou Adams, The Atlantic An NYRB Classics Original Patrick Leigh ...Show more
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